Draft:Timothy Claxton

Autobiography of Timothy Claxton

https://archive.org/details/memoirofmechanic00claxiala https://archive.org/details/memoirofmechanic00clax "Memoir of a Mechanic" (1839) "Timothy Claxton" whitesmith


Timothy Claxton

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3119430 Thomas Kelly The Origin of Mechanics' Institutes British Journal of Educational Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (Nov., 1952), pp. 17-27 (11 pages)

https://edithhall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/a-peoples-history-of-classics-small.pdf Timothy Claxton, founder (1817) of first Mechanics Institute in London. Claxton was refused membership by the City Philosophical Society

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timothy-Claxton Timothy Claxton, founder (1817) of (first) the Mechanical Institution in London; in 1820, Claxton left London; in 1822, in New York, Timothy Claxton, founder of New York Mechanic and Scientific Institution

Joseph_Wightman#Early_years circa 1826, Wightman was apprenticed to a firm of Philosophical instrument makers owned by John Codman and Timothy Claxton; In 1837, Claxton returned to England;

Boston Lyceum (est.1829) of Boston, Massachusetts - Leaders included Timothy Claxton

James D. Watkinson (1990), "Useful Knowledge? Concepts, Values, and Access in American Education, 1776-1840", History of Education Quarterly, vol. 30
Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar, 1844 Boston: T. & J. Fleet


City Philosophical Society

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/349410 In 1807 and 1808, Tatum published three small articles on galvanism

http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Faraday/ City Philosophical Society, "self-help intellectual club"

https://digital-library.theiet.org/doi/pdf/10.1049/ir%3A19910132?download=true City Philosophical. Society, led by a Mr. Tatum

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb120-mss.3666,3860-3867,5371-5372,5979-5981and7406,msl.ms.129 Thomas Pettigrew was a founding member of City Philosophical Society

https://pubsapp.acs.org/subscribe/archive/tcaw/13/i05/pdf/504chronicles.pdf City Philosophical Society, a group of men and women; met weekly; lectures; debates;

https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/notebooks-preview-note-taking-life-young-michael-faraday John Tatum's home near Blackfriars's Bridge; City Philosophical Society: open to men and women for one shilling per lecture; Faraday attended 13 lectures - from February 1810 to September 1811. Faraday produced four bound notebooks of City Philosophical Society lecture notes (geology, minerology, hydrostatics, combustion, mechanics, galvanism, electricity, optics) illustrated and indexed with theory, demonstrations and equipment lists; Faraday produced one bound notebook of the last four lectures by Humphry Davy at Royal Institution;

https://web.archive.org/web/20180530100640/https://victorianweb.org/victorian/science/chemistry/chemicalsocieties.html John Tatum (1772–1858), silversmith and natural philosopher, founded in 1808, City Philosophical Society, convened at his home, 53 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square; circa 1823 advertisement: “Lectures are delivered every fortnight, original papers are read, and subjects connected with the various branches of science are discussed by the members. Its object is to afford every facility to those who may wish to obtain scientific information” (“City Philosophical Society.” Philosophical Magazine and Journal, vol. LXI. Eds. Alexander Tillich and Richard Taylor. London, 1823: 312.)

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417470/1/Flexner%202014%20UCL%20PhD%20London%20Mechanics%20Institution.pdf https://archive.org/details/londonmechanicsinstitution Helen Hudson Flexner The London Mechanics' Institution: social and cultural foundations 1823-1830 --- the City Philosophical Society (1808) membership fee was 8 shillings per quarter

https://perspectives.blogs.bbk.ac.uk/2020/01/08/the-london-mechanics-institute-its-foundation/ London Mechanics' Institute (1823) fees were 5 shillings a quarter


Michael Faraday

https://archive.is/1TLH8 https://web.archive.org/web/20251226124315/http://www.tyler.net/hermital/book/holoprt4-1.htm In February, 1810, Faraday, attended City Philosophical Society; Faraday joined City Philosophical Society; Faraday learned of Jane Marcet's "Conversations on Chemistry"; Faraday met Edward Magrath, Richard Phillips and Benjamin Abbott, and all became close, lifelong friends;

https://www.jstor.org/stable/986790 Faraday attended John Tatum lectures in natural philosophy in 1810 and 1811, City Philosophical Society

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/physics-biographies/michael-faraday City Philosophical Society, where Faraday first saw an electric battery "voltaic pile"

https://www.famousscientists.org/michael-faraday/ at City Philosophical Society in 1816, Faraday gave his first lecture, on properties of matter

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41378130 A. J. L. James, "Michael Faraday, The City Philosophical Society and The Society of Arts", RSA Journal, 140 (1992), 192-99.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/228610 George Riebau (in a letter at Royal Institution) describes Faraday's intellect

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/RS/faraday_rs.pdf Faraday Obituary at Royal Society


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